To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
David Byrne

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Jean Cocteau

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean Cocteau

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Friedrich Schiller

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
John Legend

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Patti Smith

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
Patti Smith

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Patti Smith

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
Patti Smith

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
Patti Smith

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Andre Maurois

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Andre Maurois

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
Paul Simon

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
Paul Simon

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
Tina Weymouth